INDISCRETIONS; OR, UNE REVUE DE DEUX MONDES [Three sets of four unbound, uncut signatures]

Published by Three Mountains Press, Paris, 1923

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3 sets of 4 unbound, uncut signatures. 26-1/8" x 20-1/4". Each sheet folded once horizontally. With tearing along the edges. Various degrees of foxing and soiling. The first sheet in each set contains the title page, copyright page, and pages 12, 13, 9, and 16 on one side with the dedication page, a blank page, pages 10, 15, 11 and 14, another blank page, and the half title page on the other. The second sheet in each set contains pages 21, 20, 28, 29, 25, 32, 24, and 17 on one side with pages 23, 18, 26, 31, 27, 30, 22, and 19 on the other. The third sheet in each set contains pages 37, 36, 44, 45, 41, 48, 40, and 33 on one side with pages 39, 34, 42, 47, 43, 46, 38, and 35 on the other side. The fold lines on these sheets occurred slightly off-center, on top of some of the text. The fourth sheet in each set contains pages 47, 42, 50, 55, 51, 54, 46, and 43 on one side with pages 41, 48, 56, 49, 53, 52, 44, and 45 on the other side. These sheets all contain a faint stamp. SH consignment. Shelved Oversized Ephemera, Room A. The first book produced by the Three Mountains. Press. Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US. 1403573. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

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Title
INDISCRETIONS; OR, UNE REVUE DE DEUX MONDES [Three sets of four unbound, uncut signatures]
Author
Pound, Ezra
Publisher
Three Mountains Press, Paris
Publication year
1923
Binding
Loose folio
Edition
First Edition.
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